Director, Network Engineering Resume Austin, TX - Hire IT People

SUMMARY

Dynamic senior level organizational and technical leader with a strong business acumen and verifiable success at managing and leading high performing technical teams through various and numerous high profile and business critical projects.
Leads teams by strongly promoting and fostering a culture of ownership, empowerment, and personal responsibility - resulting in a team that consistently produces very high quality results and products for internal and external customers on schedule and on budget. Strong verbal and written communication skills with teh ability to discuss and translate complex IT solutions to all stake holders. Continually seeking new challenges for myself and my team members.

CORE COMPETENCIES

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Director, Network Engineering

Confidential, Austin, TX

Responsibilities:

Ongoing leadership and management during a period of massive growth and expansion - 35K to +150K data users (+500,000 user devices daily)
8000 nodes and 30,000 access points under management
Dramatically improved operational efficiencies and quality standards resulting in flat overhead and staffing levels during teh same period of massive growth
Improved network uptime from 97% to an average of +99.9%
Refined designs and testing practices reducing project deployment times by more than 50%
Successfully brought new network architecture, technologies and services to teh market resulting in increased market penetration and increased ROI
Managed combined CAPEX & OPEX budgets of $13 million annual
Renegotiated terms with existing hardware and ISP vendors along with bringing in new vendors - resulting in CAPEX and OPEX savings of $13 million annual for 2015
Built out a new Network Operations Center along with teh roll-out of a new NMS architecture
Built out 4 collocation facilities in geographically dispersed carrier neutral facilities
Successfully oversaw more than 300 projects of various sizes within budget and timelines
Developed and implemented a job exchange program for other technical teams wanting to cross train in teh NOC

Confidential

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

Provided technical expertise in teh design of Metro Ethernet WAN for two local collocation providers.
Provided technical expertise in teh design of a Dedicated Internet Access solution for second largest school district in Arizona.
Provided technical expertise in teh design of a converged voice and data VPN MPLS solution for a regional bank.
Provided technical expertise in teh design of a disaster recovery and collocation solution for a medical research firm.
Assisted in teh development of division product and sales training.
Principle consultant responsible for teh sale and implementation of a Metro Ethernet WAN project that provided WAN services to 13 school districts in Central and Southern Texas.
TEMPPrincipal lead for teh sale and design of a VPN WAN and Dedicated Internet Access solution for a Private/State enterprise that encompassed 24 sites.
Developed and managed a portfolio of more than 600 accounts.
Awarded 2006 Pinnacle Club Member status and won an all-inclusive trip to Cozumel, Mexico.
Nominated to Key Staff Advisory Board to assist in teh forging of department policies and procedures.